Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-11-26
COAST ITEMS.

Two large planning mills are to be built
Fresno.
Salt Lake is starting in to boom the town
and Utah Territory.
Stockton is to have II electric towers and
Is masts, with to7 lights.
| A successful artesian well has been com
pleted at Hanford. 1t is down $50 feet.
Miss Mary Heating is missing from Sacra'
m.nto. She is about thirty years Of age.
The postoffice at Steilocoom, w. T. was
robbed Sunday night and the safe taken
away in a boat.
! Charles Hemuth, an inmate OF the Sacra.
mento County Hospital, cut his throat with
a pocket knife this week.
| A Canadian named Slyerlhorn blew out
! The gas al The Russ House, San Diego, Tues
day night, and was nearly asphy
Charges of larceny, burglary, blackmail'
ing and stealing cattle are made against
members OF the police force al Los Angeles.
Judge Armstrong of Sacramento, has grant
ed a divorce to Alice NJ. ValenSln from
s'Count" Valensin, who offered no defense
A youth named Jacob Benderf was killed
at Grass Valley sunday while pulling shot
gun through brush fence with the muzzle
toward him.
A thief at Los Angeles got away yester
day with tray containing $4,000 worth OF
diamonds in a jewelry store, the window Of
which he smashed.
Land has been purchased at Fresno for an
Iowa colony of 100 families. The land is
proportioned so that each settler will receive
nty-three acres.
The Spring Valley Mining Company Of
Butte county sent $4,000 gold brick to
Oroville last Thursday. The mine has
yielded $50, 900 this month.
The gold ledge recently found near Pres
cott A. T., runs north and south and the
shaft is down only fifteen feet. The stories
of the marvellous richness of the ledge are
corroborated by the great numbers of visi-
tors to the mine.
S. !. Stills, the son -inlaw of Harlan, tes-
tined Tuesday at Woodland that Craft, who
his pocket saying: 81 have the N ANS Of
compelling Harlan to make his daughter
sign an exoneralion" The testimony Great.
ed quite sensation.
The petition of Mrs. Ben Holiday to
have Joe Holiday removed from the admin
istra torship Of the Ben Holiday estate at
Portland, Or, has been granted. The Judge
held that owing TO the VIGOROUSLY unfriend-
ly spirit between the brothers during the
last few years of Ben's life, Joe was unfit to
be administrator.
The second rasin train Of twenty cars left
Fresno Tuesday for New York. All the
goods are sold. The train was decoroted
with steamers telling the people that the
ralsns were from Fresno, Los Angeles hav
ing been credited with the last load. The
Pacific Packing Company at Fresno have
averaged one carload per day during the
season and promise soon to quadIuple their
capacity.
1t was discovered yesterday, at Mare
Island, that sixty odd feet of the Duquesne'S
shoe or false keel had been ripped off as
though she had been pumped down on some
hidden rock and then slid of siiewise. 1t is
considered remarkable that this damage had
not been discovered before, the Frenchman
having had divers to work on an examina-
tlon OF the ship more than once during the
past two or three days.
George Westfall, aged about fifty five
years, is under arrest al Les Angeles for at.
tempting to murder his little boy, aged be-
tween three and four. The child's head
appears to have been knocked against the
rocks. The skull is fractured and the
chances for the child's life are very slim.
Westfall acknowledges the crime and says
the little fellow was nuisance, and he want
ed to rid himself Of him. The brutal faith
er was slipped out Of the City Prison and
taken to the County Jail to secure safety
from the chances of being mobbed.